I love NK Jemisin’s City stories and this new one is not disappointing! I’m only part-way through, but already I’m back in her world, where ordinary humans find themselves functioning as avatars for their home cities. The inter dimensional enemy is back … or rather, never fully left … and New York plus his boroughs…
This is a sci-fi book by Catriona Silvey. I enjoyed it, even though it has some very sad bits. The book is about two people (Santi and Thora) who keep reincarnating and running into one another and various other people (plus one cat and a parakeet). In time, they begin to remember their other lives…
Just finished watching a thought-provoking sci-fi film based on a Robert Silverberg short story. The movie stars Leslie Odom, Jr & Cynthia Erivo as lovers whose lives are disrupted by the time-traveling vacations of their uber-rich friend, played by Orlando Bloom. Seems he still loves Cynthia’s character after their divorce and is trying to go…
Christmas is less than a week away! If you’re still waffling about what to get your favorite reader(s), here are some suggestions: What can you get the science fiction reader who has everything? Well, unless you’ve got the money to get a jetpack, why not help them explore the roots of the genre with some…
I finally found the time (in between trying to make my daily word count for NaNoWriMo) to watch the new incarnation of Dune. The film was directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts, and Eric Roth. Of course, it’s based on the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert. This version, Part One of…
I decided to try Martha Wells’ fantasy series about the Raksura and am enjoying them. The premise is that there is a race of shape-shifters … they seem to be sort of a cross between dragons and winged humans, though the cover picture doesn’t really match what the book seems to “show” they look like.…
I’ve started a new series: the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers. This is her debut novel and I enjoyed it a good bit. A motley crew made up of several different species runs the warp hole tunneling ship Wayfarer. When they take on a new crew member, she learns the true meaning of family as…
I’ve started a new sci-fi series recently: the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Despite the name, they’re not horror but humorous adventure, very similar to what I like to think my books are like. The protagonist in the series is an organic/robotic construct designed as a security unit. However, it has hacked its governor module…
I’m starting a new feature of the blog: reviews of classic science fiction novels and movies. I’ll begin with one of my favorites: Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein. It’s the far distant future, on a far distant planet, and an old man is dying … or is he? Woodrow Wilson Smith, aka Lazarus…
This month I’m working on anthologies. There are at least ten sci-fi anthologies due in February or early March. I might not have time to submit a story to each of them, but I’m going to give it the old college try. I’ve completed a mis-mashed fairy tale for “Upon a Once Time” (and need…